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I saw this post on the class site today and had some similar feelings. I have also found the history of the Americas and the African cultures very interesting. Typically world history lets us into the world of Eurasia. This chapter talks about all of the great ideas, inventions and ways of these once great civilizations. Like Carly, I fond it very resourceful and productive to make books out of the deer skin. If you are going to kill an animal for food it is smart to get use out of the bones and skin also. She then mentions a not so smart move by the Anasazi people. To build a house floor that is a level lower than that of the earth itself is a bit silly. The flooding aspect seems so obvious but I would assume that they felt they were expanding the size of their home rather than making their living situation much worse when the weather gets bad. 

The last comment that Carly makes is about the little treasures that the mound builders put with their dead. She wondered if they thought the stuff stayed with the dead and I would assume that was exactly why. They probably felt that the dead would be in heaven and have all of these little goods with them. The treasures could also have been payment at the gates of heaven. Maybe they felt it was a payment to the gods for their acceptance into the aftyerlife. I have left things in a family members casket before. They are memories that they could have to look at and remember in their new life of eternity. It is a nice way to feel that life goes on and our connections are not forgotten.